Improvement in studs for fastening neck-ties to collars



ILSETERB, PHON-UTNOGRAFMEk WASHINGTON. D. C.

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WILLIAM E. SIMONDS, 0F HARTFORD, OONF-OTIGUT.

15mm Patent No. 103,093,1datea May 17,1870.

` -*QOH Y IMPROVEMENT IN STUJIDS FOR FASTENING- NECK-TIES TO COLLARS.

The Schedule referred toix; these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, WILLIAM E. SIMoNDs, of Hartford, county of Hartford and State of Gonnecticuthave invented certain Improvements in Shirt-collar Studs, ot' which the following",r is a specification.`

Nature and `Objects of the I no entton.

My improvement consists `in so constructing a slot i in the solid bulb or semibulb which commonly forms the front part of the ordinary shirt-collar stud that the common loop of a snap .or butterfly neck-tie ca-n canfbe readily fastened therein, where it will be safely retained.

Description of the Accompanying Drawings. Fignicl is a'sideview 'of thelstud..

YFigure 2 is a-central verticalV sectional, the section being at a right angle to the slot wherein theloop ot' the neck-tie is fastened. A

General Description. Many attempts have been made to construct some kind ot' a hook on the` front end of .a shirt-collar stu'd,

s that the loop of a butterfly neck-tie can be read'- Vily fastened therein, but it has `not heretoforebeen done successfully.

'lhe-diculty to be overcome isto socon'struct this l hook that it shall not interfere with pushing it through the thicknesses of `the shirt and collar. However easy this Vmaylook in theory, in practice it is diliicult.

An ordinary hook fastened to the front face of an ordinary studlcan only be pushed 'through these four thicknesses of shirt-band and collar with great diculty, and then only by tearing the band or collar4 it' either be at all fragile. i

The .letter et indicates the bulb or semi-bulb which Vforms the front end ot an ordinary 'collar stud.

Back, nearV to the book part of the bulb, a slot b is sawn about halt way through the bulb, and thebottom ot' the slot is bored out s'o as to brm a seat -for 7the loop of the neck-tie, the bottom of which slot is some'- whnt below the center of the bulb.

By preserving the general spherical'shape of the bulb it can be pushed through any number of thicknesses with ease, the narrow slot b uotinterfering.

It' is not practicable to button astud into the band and collar by pushingit through backward, buttouing the collar hrst and then the shirt-baud, as any person v can easily'satisfy himself by :i single trial.

In fastening the loop of a butterfly neck-tie on au ordinary stud, the thickness ot' shirt and collar so till Witnesses.: EDWIN Maiivix, WILLIAM H. GoeswELL. 

